Author name: David Demery

After a three-month re-fit with a £1m brand new hull, the Thekla has returned to her familiar mooring opposite the entrance to Bathurst Basin.

Work continues on the opening mechanism of the swing bridge leading into Trin Mills and Bathurst Parade.

Cabot Cruising Cub is reinstating electrical supplies for boats moored along Bathurst Parade since the accidental damage to the underwater cables in the Basin caused by the recent dredging.

Show of Strength Theatre Company is organising an historical walk ‘led by’ Sarah Guppy, the nineteenth century engineer and inventor.

A second planning application has been lodged by Dr and Mrs Hugh Pratt for the ‘reinstatement of an historic landing stage for use associated with Marchioness site’.

5 in a Hat Theatre Company and Atomic Rhubarb from Weston-Super-Mare are bringing back their zany comedy by popular request.

Friends of Bathurst Basin (FOBB) are very concerned about proposals to build a block of flats in the railway cutting alongside Guinea Street.

Merchants Quay was closed to pedestrians at the Prince Street entry because of a ‘chemical spillage’.

The Bristol Half-Marathon will take place on Sunday 15th September 2019 and it will again involve road closures close to Merchants Landing. 

For the fitter Landing residents and their fit friends and family, new bicycle stands have been installed behind Byzantine Court.

Theatre Company will present Checkpoint by Saito Hawkins at the John Sebastian’s Lightship Theatre on Sunday July 28th.

Following the problems during last year’s Harbour Festival, the Amenities Company directors met with Richmond Event Management to discuss security around Merchants Landing during this year’s festival.